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Naprawdę śmieszne? Granice śmiechu w edukacji

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Grzybowski P. P.

Parezja. Czasopismo Forum Młodych Pedagogów przy Komitecie Nauk Pedagogicznych PAN

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2014

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vol. 2

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This essay, in addition to the review of the functions and types of laughter, contains the analysis of the circumstances of derision in education in the historical and comparative context. It is illustrated by the opinions of experts and examples from the realm of practice. Derision is presented here as a phenomenon, which might be a key element in the description and analysis of social relations in the public sphere – particularly in relation to the school communities of laughter, which makes it an important pedagogic category. The author indicates ambivalence of derision in education and tries to seek answers to the questions: Where is the border of derision in education? Which elements decide on crossing this border?

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„Kinematografia dla milionów”. Obraz wspólnoty w komediach muzycznych Grigorija Aleksandrowa

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Flig M.

Politeja : Pismo Wydziału Studiów Miedzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

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2013

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issue 4(26)

517-531

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Grigorii Aleksandrov’s films created with composer Isaak Dunaevskii were among the most popular of Russian cinema in the 1930s and 1940s. The first Aleksandrov’s film Happy Guys centered on the poetic of comedy as ideology or entertainment. In the article author describes the strategies of manipulation. The Soviet musical incorporated Stalinist ideology and nationalism. The patriotic language in soviet comedies is naturalized, it seems like songs in films were more about nature than politics, patriotic love and life‑affirming laughter. Aleksandrov used archetypes and myths of the Stalin era and produced image of mythical soviet community. The maternal archetype is present in fertility imagery and is spatially encoded as “Rodina” (“homeland” or “motherland”). He put an end to the 1920s cult of ugliness in Soviet cinema and convinced Stalin, that beauty is a necessary element of Soviet art. Aleksandrov’s films reproduced the dominant ideology and gave people what they wanted – entertainment, escape from the travails of the everyday, and hope for the better life.

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Мовні засоби вираження сміху в реалізації комунікативних стратегій і тактик у художній прозі початку XXI ст.

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Danyluk I.

Studia Ucrainica Varsoviensia

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2016

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vol. 4

83-94

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The article analyzes the theoretical aspects of communication strategies, tactics, and actions; it determines that laughter as a non-verbal “sign” of communication in the structure of the text is a communicatively oriented strategic concept, which is implemented in communication tactics and actions by means of language (tactics of manipulation, concealment of information, denial, threats); it determines their role in shaping implicitness in the process of artistic communication; in predicting interpersonal communication in the structure of the artistic whole, and in strengthening the general textual strategy verbalized by the characters.

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The role of laughter in establishing solidarity and status

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McLachlan A. J.

The European Journal of Humour Research

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2022

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vol. 10

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issue 2

29-50

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Drawing on a range of American, Australian, British and Scandinavian research into laughter, the current paper will use the form of pragmatic analysis typically found in qualitative research and apply it to data produced by the quantitative methodology common in the author’s own discipline of psychology. Laughter will be examined as an indexical that serves both a discourse deictic function, designating the utterance in which it occurs as non-serious, and a social deictic function, marking the laughing person’s preference for social proximity with fellow interlocutors. The paper will then analyse examples and data pertaining to three types of laughter bout derived from taking laughter as an indexical. First, solitary listener laughter will be argued to signify a deferential acknowledgement of continued solidarity with the speaker. Second, solitary speaker laughter will be suggested to mark a simple preference for solidarity. Third, joint laughter will be accepted as a signifier of actual solidarity that may also be used to mark status depending on which party typically initiates the joint laughter. Joint laughter thus acts in a manner closely analogous to the exchange of another set of indexicals, the T and V versions of second person pronouns in European languages. Finally, the paper will conclude by examining the problematic case of laughing at another interlocutor, before briefly considering the implications of this pragmatic perspective for traditional accounts of laughter as well as for future research.

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The assessment of the fear of being laughed at in Poland: Translation and first evaluation of the Polish GELOPH<15>

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Chłopicki W., Radomska A., Proyer R. T., Ruch W.

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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2010

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vol. 41

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issue 4

172-181

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The main aim of the paper was to translate and, for the first time, evaluate the Polish GELOPH<15>. This is a 15-item questionnaire for the subjective assessment of gelotophobia, the fear of being laughed at. Gelotophobia is seen as an individual differences phenomenon at a sub-clinical level. The psychometric properties of the Polish version were tested in two independently collected samples with a total N of 506 participants. The Polish GELOPH<15> yielded good psychometric properties in terms of high reliability in both samples. The fear of being laughed at existed widely independently from the participants’ age, sex, or marital status (being married or living with a partner vs. being single or not living with a partner). The Polish GELOPH<15> can be seen as a reliable instrument for the subjective assessment of gelotophobia for research and practical applications.

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Affect philosophy meets incongruity: about transformative potentials in comic laughter

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Weeks M.

The European Journal of Humour Research

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2020

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vol. 8

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issue 1

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The emergence of philosophical affect theory, sourced substantially in Continental philosophy, has intensified scholarly attention around affective potentials in laughter. However, the relationship between laughter’s affect and the comic remains a complicated one for researchers, with some maintaining that the two should be studied separately (Emmerson 2019, Parvulescu 2010). While there is a credible academic rationale for drawing precise distinctions, the present article takes an integrative approach to laughter and the comic. It analyzes, then synthesizes, points of convergence between key texts in affect philosophy and certain elements of incongruity-based humour theory. Specifically, the article seeks to demonstrate that some integration can bring insight and clarity to discussion of transformative potentials sometimes attributed to forms of comic laughter, especially within cultural studies and social science following the philosophy of Deleuze. This approach may also usefully complicate the concept of incongruity itself.

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Laughing along? Negotiating belonging as a workplace newcomer

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Marra M.

The European Journal of Humour Research

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2022

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vol. 10

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issue 2

135-151

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Successfully joining a new workplace community is demanding, especially when this involves crossing national boundaries in addition to team boundaries. For outsiders, humour is an area that arguably presents a challenge to full participation, particularly when local understandings are not shared, nor even recognized as distinctive. Newcomers face the challenge of navigating the trajectory from legitimate peripheral member towards core status (adopting the terms of the Community of Practice model). This involves cooperating with others in interaction, including engaging with humour and laughter as a way of indicating belonging. Here belonging is operationalized using the two dimensions proposed by Antonsich (2010), namely (1) a sense of belonging and (2) the politics of belonging as evidenced through negotiation with others. Applying an Interactional Sociolinguistic approach, I offer analysis of naturally occurring workplace interactions and reflections from skilled migrant interns in New Zealand workplaces. I discuss the place of laughter in attempts to demonstrate team membership, arguing that these attempts at belonging require the cooperation and endorsement of insiders. The findings indicate that, however benevolently intentioned, the local colleagues’ use of humour, and their reactions to the humour and laughter produced by the skilled migrant interns, often results in a sense of othering and exclusion. This is keenly felt by the interns who note the difficulties that taken for granted practices create in their acceptance and progress. In many cases the result is laughing along, as an outward signal of fit, rather than laughing with which suggests a deeper sense of belonging.

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Laughter, bonding and biological evolution

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Goddard C., Lambert D.

The European Journal of Humour Research

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2022

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vol. 10

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issue 2

14-28

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This paper combines perspectives from evolutionary biology and linguistics to discuss the early evolution of laughter and the possible role of laughter-like vocalisation as a bonding mechanism in hominins and early human species. From the perspective of evolutionary biology, we here emphasise several things: the role of exaptation, the typically very slow pace of evolutionary change, and the danger of projecting backwards from the current utilities of laughter to infer its earlier function, hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of years ago. From the perspective of linguistics, we examine both the semantics of the word ‘laugh’ and the vocal mechanics of human laughter production, arguing that greater terminological care is needed in talking about the precursors of laughter in the ancient evolutionary past. Finally, we turn to hypotheses about how laughter-like vocalisations may have arisen, long before articulate language as we know it today. We focus in particular on Robin Dunbar’s hypothesis that laughter-like vocalisation, which stimulated endorphin production, might have functioned as a bonding mechanism (a kind of “vocal grooming”) among hominins and early human species. The paper contributes to the special issue theme (Humour and Belonging) by casting a long look backwards in time to laughter-like vocalisation as a distant evolutionary precursor of humour, and to bonding as an evolutionary precursor to cognitively and socially modern forms of “belonging”. At the same time, it cautions against casual theorising about the evolutionary origins of laughter.

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Humour and belonging: a thematic review

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Arab R., Milner Davis J.

The European Journal of Humour Research

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2022

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vol. 10

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issue 2

1-13

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Serving as introduction to this Special Issue, this article presents a thematic review of topics involved in studies on humour and belonging. It briefly elaborates on the intricacies of concepts such as humour, sense of humour and belonging and their relationships. It then provides a selective review of some major relevant studies. Finally, the themes and contents of the Special Issue are introduced.

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Laughter interjections in Xhosa

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Andrason A.

Studies in African Languages and Cultures

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2021

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issue 55

31-71

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The present paper analyzes the system of laughter-based interjections (L-INTJs) in Xhosa. By drawing on corpus and fieldwork evidence, the author concludes the following: the systems of L-INTJs consists of five types of constructions built around the segments ha, he, ho, hi, and yha, the satellites te and ti, as well as a number of replicative templates. The pattern hVhVhV with a short vowel is the most productive. Other replicative patterns, patterns involving (extra‑)long vowels, and the pattern tVhV are less productive. Overall, L-INTJs are the canonical members of the interjective category. The presence and range of uses of L-INTJs result from the interjectionalization of laughter-based onomatopoeias or the onomatopoeization of non-laughter-related interjections.

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Humor revisited – alte und neue Aspekte in der Humorforschung

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Jurasz A.

Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław

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2022

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issue 22

443-450

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Almost all scientific disciplines have been researching humour since ancient times, so that the impression can arise that it has been thoroughly examined and explained. The number of publications on the subject „humour“, which has been increasing for many decades, registers differentiated approaches to various aspects of humour such as its manifestations, functions, means an mechanism, which can be reflected both on the linguistic level and on the visual level. Since humour is also regarded as a social phenomenon, the social context and the current refernce to reality should also be taken into account when examining it. The anthology „Mit Humor ist nicht immer zu spaßen. An der Grenze von Spaß und Ernst“ by Iwona Wowro und Mariusz Jakosz (eds.) provides seventeen contributions whose authors follow these starting points in their analyses and deal with humorous texts realized orally and linguistically.

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Strategia nierozstrzygalności w wierszu jest taki pomnik Tadeusza Różewicza

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Mikołajczak M.

Przestrzenie Teorii

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2019

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issue 31

143-156

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The article deals with Tadeusz Rożewicz’s poem jest taki pomnik and puts forward a new interpretation concerning the mechanisms he uses to construct meanings. The author focuses on three issues: (1) the role of photography as an interpreter, (2) intertextual encryption of key contexts for the spiritual idea of the poem, (3) the allopathic function of laughter. She also indicates components of the strategy of undecidability, as a result of which a work containing what might seem an unambiguous ideological statement launches mechanisms guarding against one-way reading.

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Geneza i ewolucja humoru

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Libura A.

Język a Kultura

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2017

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vol. 27

103 - 117

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The paper discusses various hypotheses that humor is an evolutionary adaptation. First, those research fields that may shed light on the origin and evolution of humor are presented. Second, the problem of dating the origin of humor and laughter is briefly addressed. Third, three groups of evolutionary explanations are considered, each of which is associated with one of the main theories of humor: psychoanalytical, cognitive-perceptual and social-behavioral theories. The data provide quite convincing evidence of cognitive and social benefits that may have facilitated the evolutionary development of humor. These data are consistent with core theses of the cognitive-perceptual theories of humor on the one hand and with some less prominent versions of the social-behavioral theories on the other hand.

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Job: A Christian Sisyphus? Humor and the Triumph o f Humań Experience

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Vanhoutte K. K. P.

Stylistyka

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2010

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vol. 19

263-278

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Over the past decades humor and laughter have come to be accepted as serious topics in academic research and a number of diverse theories on humor and the role of laughter have been developed. These theories, however, consider laughter mainly in its daily aspects or in normal life situations. Starting ffom Albert Camus’ concept of the happy Sisyphus, this paper considers whether the figurę of Job, who seems to inhabit a comparably absurd situation, could also be considered as happy, even laughing. The paper concludes with a distinctive reading of the divine words found at the end of The Book of Job that ma> be fundamental in linking Sisyphus w.th Job.

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The myth of Orpheus in the second postwar decade in Italy and Poland

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Ciccarini M., Ciccarini M.

Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny

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2019

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issue 2

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Mistrz, błazen i ich międzykulturowa wspólnota. Śmiech na kulturowym pograniczu klasy szkolnej

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GRZYBOWSKI P. P.

Multicultural Studies

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2016

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issue 1

131-141

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Celem refl eksji będącej podstawą niniejszego artykułu jest przedstawienie okoliczności budowania wspólnoty śmiechu w klasie szkolnej. Autor zakłada, że jednym z czynników rozwiązywania konfl iktów, poszukiwania płaszczyzn dialogu i osiągania kompromisu w klasie szkolnej postrzeganej jako pogranicze kulturowe jest świadome budowanie wspólnoty śmiechu. Jej liderem może być zarówno nauczyciel (mistrz), jak i jeden z uczniów pełniący wśród rówieśników funkcję błazna klasowego. Klasa szkolna rozpatrywana jest tu jako jeden z najbardziej rozpowszechnionych typów kulturowego pogranicza. Dochodzi w niej do spotkania osób funkcjonujących na co dzień w różnych grupach wiekowych, charakteryzujących się odmiennym statusem w środowisku szkoły. W odniesieniu do niej można mówić także o kontaktach z Innością/Obcością zachodzących na zasadzie przenikania określonych wzorów kulturowych i wartości ze sfery publicznej, co następuje w czasie lekcji z przedmiotów, w których program jest wpisane zróżnicowanie kulturowe. Naturalne jest więc stykanie się w klasie (niekiedy także starcie) wzorów kulturowych wyniesionych z domu przez uczniów i/lub obecnych w kulturze masowej. Wiąże się to z konfl iktami w społeczności szkolnej, przybierającymi rozmaite formy i wymagającymi od wychowawców przedsięwzięcia środków zaradczych. Wspólnotowy śmiech w klasie szkolnej – szczególnie śmiech z kimś, a nie przeciw komuś – świadczy o integracji środowiska, wzajemnym zrozumieniu i możliwości zaistnienia dialogu ponad granicami wieku i statusu. Zarówno nauczyciel-mistrz, jak i klasowy błazen mogą więc odgrywać w klasowej społeczności rolę nie do przecenienia, ponieważ budowanie – także dzięki ich działaniom – międzykulturowej wspólnoty w klasie pomaga uczniom aktywnie poznawać jej wartość, którą mogą wykorzystać w życiu pozaszkolnym.

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The aim of these refl ections is to verify the thesis concerning establishment of the community of laughter as one of the factors supporting and empowering teachers in the process of resolving confl icts, seeking dimensions of dialogue, and achieving compromise in the classroom (perceived as a cultural borderland). It is an area, people of diff erent social statuses that function on daily basis in various age groups meet. Hence, with reference to the classroom, encountering the Other/Alien occurs on the ground permeated by given cultural patterns and values from the public sphere. Such process takes place when the class accomplishes objectives linked to the cultural diversity. Presented arguments were formulated as a result of a profound inspection and analysis of the secondary data. Both the master-teacher and the class clown can play a key role, be of paramount importance to the class community. Establishing cross-cultural community in the classroom can help pupils to actively recognize and learn the value of such community – that could be utilized in their subsequent, after-school life.

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O szkole jako fabryce nudy i śmiechu

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Motyl K.

Podstawy Edukacji

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2014

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vol. 7

141-165

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The text is an attempt to describe the school in the metaphor of the factory. Seen from this perspective, the automatism, repeatability, predictability and cyclicality are a source of boredom. Boredom is a complex problem, that causes different pupils reactions, like withdrawal and aggression. In the text also is described a reaction associated with a laugh.

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Tekst jest próbą opisania szkoły za pomocą metafory fabryki. Patrząc z tej perspektywy, automatyzm szkolny, powtarzalność, cykliczność i przewidywalność wiążą się z powstaniem nudy. Nuda jest sytuacją trudną, dlatego pojawiają się różne reakcje obronne. W tekście oprócz wycofania i agresji opisana jest także reakcja związana ze śmiechem.

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On madness without words: gestures in Homer’s poems as a nonverbal means of depicting madness

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Chruściak I.

Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae

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2013

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vol. 23

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issue 2

5-16

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The paper discusses various ways of depicting madness in Homer’s epics based on the example of a scene from the Iliad, in which Andromache is compared to a maenad, as well as the scene concerning the feast of suitors in book XX of the Odyssey. Depicting madness by means of gestures affects the reception of the described scenes by the external and internal epic audience in a very special way. The gestures that are described invoke in the listeners associations related to their own experiences and appeal to particular emotions, whose presence affects the reception of an epic. The gestures and the nonverbal message allude to the Bacchic trance and this raises the question whether Homer and his audience were familiar with the cult of Dionysus.

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The Great War Revisited: The Laughter of the Fool and the Shame of the Coward in Paul Bailey’s Old Soldiers

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Sokołowska-Paryż M.

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies

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2012

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issue 21/1

17-30

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The purpose of the paper is an analysis of the representations of the cultural memory of the Great War in Paul Bailey’s novel Old Soldiers. The discussion will focus on the metaphorical representation of the futility myth (laughter) and the psychological representation of the crisis of masculinity (shame). The laughter of the fool has obvious connotations with the Book of Ecclesiastes, yet, as the analysis will prove, the depiction of the memory of the first day of the Somme battle through the prism of laughter has an important predecessor in Ted Hughes’s poetic sequence Crow. The attempts to escape the memory of cowardly conduct will be set in the context of the psychology of shame, which will allow deeper insight into the construction of the antihero in British literature about the Great War.

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Marii Dudzikowej postulat szlachetnego śmiechu uczniowskiego

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Grzybowski P. P.

Studia z Teorii Wychowania

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2019

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issue 1 (26)

83-102

PL

Artykuł zawiera przegląd opinii Marii Dudzikowej o zjawisku uczniowskiego śmiechu oraz rekonstrukcję szczątkowych rezultatów przeprowadzonych przez Autorkę badań na ten temat. Zostały w nim przedstawione ustalenia M. Dudzikowej oparte na poznawczej koncepcji człowieka. Dotyczą one przede wszystkim śmiechu w relacjach uczniów z nauczycielami. Zostały tu omówione wyróżnione przez Autorkę rodzaje śmiechu oraz występujące w szkole kategorie nauczycieli związane ze śmiechem. Przegląd opinii i rezultatów badań M. Dudzkowej został ukazany na tle podobnych prac innych specjalistów. Przeglądowi towarzyszą przykłady w postaci cytatów zaczerpniętych z wypowiedzi uczniów szkół średnich w Polsce. Z uwagi na wspomnieniowy charakter tego opracowania, w przypisach przytoczono tytuły wszystkich znanych publikacji Autorki o śmiechu w szkole - zarówno akademickich opracowań, jak i tekstów o charakterze publicystycznym.

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The article contains an overview of the opinions of Maria Dudzikowa about the phenomenon of student laughter and the reconstruction of the residual results carried out by the Author on this subject. The article presents the views of M. Dudzikowa based on the cognitive concept of man. They mainly concern laughter in the relations between students and teachers. The article discusses the types of laughter distinguished by the author and the categories of teachers associated with laughing at school. A review of the opinions and research results of M. Dudzikowa has been presented against the background of similar works by other specialists. The review is accompanied by examples in the form of quotations taken from the statements of high school students in Poland. Due to the memorable nature of this study, the footnotes contain all the well-known publications of the author of laughter at school - both academic studies and journalistic texts.

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Naprawdę śmieszne? Granice śmiechu w edukacji

„Kinematografia dla milionów”. Obraz wspólnoty w komediach muzycznych Grigorija Aleksandrowa

Мовні засоби вираження сміху в реалізації комунікативних стратегій і тактик у художній прозі початку XXI ст.

The role of laughter in establishing solidarity and status

The assessment of the fear of being laughed at in Poland: Translation and first evaluation of the Polish GELOPH<15>

Affect philosophy meets incongruity: about transformative potentials in comic laughter

Laughing along? Negotiating belonging as a workplace newcomer

Laughter, bonding and biological evolution

Humour and belonging: a thematic review

Laughter interjections in Xhosa

Humor revisited – alte und neue Aspekte in der Humorforschung

Strategia nierozstrzygalności w wierszu jest taki pomnik Tadeusza Różewicza

Geneza i ewolucja humoru

Job: A Christian Sisyphus? Humor and the Triumph o f Humań Experience

The myth of Orpheus in the second postwar decade in Italy and Poland

Mistrz, błazen i ich międzykulturowa wspólnota. Śmiech na kulturowym pograniczu klasy szkolnej

O szkole jako fabryce nudy i śmiechu

On madness without words: gestures in Homer’s poems as a nonverbal means of depicting madness

The Great War Revisited: The Laughter of the Fool and the Shame of the Coward in Paul Bailey’s Old Soldiers

Marii Dudzikowej postulat szlachetnego śmiechu uczniowskiego